Over the last 15 years, I've worked with a wide range of safety professionals. In that time, many of them have stayed in relatively the same position, while others have become the head of operations for large companies around the world.

When it comes to safety communication, there are times when we have different requirements to engage people on safety.

At this time, you may want to know how to convince your supervisors to care more about safety.

Or maybe you're currently getting push back on safety and want to know how to motivate employees, or even leaders, to take safety more seriously.

Or perhaps you write or talk about safety regularly and need some new, proven ideas to engage your workforce.

Whatever your current safety communication challenge, here is a comprehensive list of all our free safety communication resources when it comes to safety communication and culture. These resources will provide you with the information you need, when you need it.

Congratulations! You've now been assigned the task to write and talk about the new safety communication campaign for the month.

Whether it's about hazards, manual handling, applying sunscreen or even using a new pedestrian walk, you probably know you've got a tough job ahead to get more than 10% of your workforce's interest.

Fear not! Know that if advertising agencies can make ugly family wagons 'sexy' and even convince people of the benefits of incontinence pads, then it should be fairly easy to get people to want to live another day. Let's try and get the awareness rate over 75%.

One of the legal requirements of a CEO or business owner and their board is to effectively govern their organisation. They need to set the ethics, the values and consider how to put the right controls in place to ensure the organisation is not run negligently. The result is a board that monitors management and relies on compliance, risk and internal audit committees.

If you're interested in improving productivity and wellbeing in the workplace, then you might be interested in a free educational event at Total Facilities, Australia’s largest industry exhibition for facilities and workplace professionals.

Marie-Claire Ross, author of Transform your Safety Communication, will be presenting Four Steps to Creating a Mentally Healthy Workplace at the Melbourne Exhibition and Conference Centre on Wednesday 6 April.

It is estimated that mental health conditions have a detrimental impact on Australian workplaces – costing approximately $11 billion per year.

Last year, I was talking to the safety manager at an equipment hire company that has 300 staff Australia wide. He had launched a new safety campaign with his senior manager to promote the new annual safety goal.

Beautiful brochures were created and were launched with much fanfare at sites across the country. To the horror of management, employees were cynical and distrusted the messages. Showing their lack of faith by throwing the expensive brochures into the bin.

A Towers Watson study titled Change and Communication ROI, claims that the most important goal of an effective communication program is to motivate both employees and management to act upon, and achieve, the goals set by the organisation.

Yet, most organisations fail miserably at their latest communication launches, including safety. With only 55% of communication initiatives succeeding initially and only one in four being successful (25%) in changing behaviour long term.

According to a study by Siemens Enterprise Communications, a business with 100 employees spends
an average of 17 hours a week clarifying communication.
This translates to
an annual cost of $528,443 (even higher for larger companies).

Where there are communication barriers, due to people misunderstanding information, there are also productivity losses. The same study found that the cumulative cost per worker per year is $26,041 just from communication barriers alone.